Inclusive Lending Product Development
Challenge In the Eastern and Southern Caribbean women have not historically been the target users of financial products and business support services. There is a…
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Gender Equality
Latin America and Caribbean Learning and Rapid Response (LACLEARN)
Challenge Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is currently seeing the largest share of declines in democracy-focused Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout LAC, democratic backsliding has…
YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation (YP2LE)
Led by Making Cents International, USAID’s YouthPower Learning project closed major knowledge gaps in PYD theory and practice, yet there is a continuing need to…
Collective Action to Reduce Gender-Based Violence (CARE-GBV)
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive violation of unalienable human rights and a barrier to civic, social, political, and economic participation
YouthPower Learning (YouthPower: Evidence and Evaluation IDIQ)
Challenge Significant gaps remain in the areas of research and evaluation of youth programming. Apart from several known examples of success, there has been an…
Unleashing the Economic Leadership Power of Young Women: Strengthening the Evidence Base
Challenge Efforts by the international development community to improve women’s and girls’ access to quality education and training have yielded improvements over the years. Yet,…
Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Activity (KCDMS), RTI International (USAID)
Challenge The majority of smallholder farmers in Kenya subsist on low-input, low-output rain-fed agriculture on very small plots. Women and youth represent a large portion…
Positive Pathways Activity
Challenge Jamaica’s persistent problem of violent crime has resulted in its regular inclusion in top ten lists of countries with the highest murder rates in…
Ready, Resourceful, Risk Aware (Triple R): OVC, Adolescent Girls, and Young Women/ Insika Ya Kusasa
Challenge Despite recent reductions in new HIV infections in Eswatini, the number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the country remains high. The impact…
Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity (ICAN)
Challenge Communities in Uganda suffer from multiple challenges, such as poverty, food insecurity, high rates of malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, and high population growth rates. Poor governance and…